Thus Google has announced that it is taking a new approach. Instead of redirecting users to Google.comhk, the company will present users with a landing page that links to Googe.com.hk. From the blog post:

"We have therefore been looking at possible alternatives, and instead of automatically redirecting all our users, we have started taking a small percentage of them to a landing page on Google.cn that links to Google.com.hk—where users can conduct web search or continue to use Google.cn services like music and text translate, which we can provide locally without filtering. This approach ensures we stay true to our commitment not to censor our results on Google.cn and gives users access to all of our services from one page."

As we've noted before, Google is between a rock and a hard place. China is too lucrative of a market to pull out from entirely, but censoring search results would go against everything the company's done up to this point. If this move appeases Chinese authorities, then everybody wins, but we have the sneaking suspicion that the Google-China saga is far from over.

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